Solar eclipse of August 2, 2065
# Solar eclipse of August 2, 2065

A partial solar eclipse will occur on Sunday, August 2, 2065. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs in the polar regions of the Earth when the center of the Moon's shadow misses the Earth.

## Related eclipses

### Solar eclipses 2062–2065

This eclipse is a member of a semester series. An eclipse in a semester series of solar eclipses repeats approximately every 177 days and 4 hours (a semester) at alternating nodes of the Moon's orbit.

| 121 | March 11, 2062 Partial | 126 | September 3, 2062 Partial |
| - | - | - | - |
| 131 | February 28, 2063 Annular | 136 | August 24, 2063 Total |
| 141 | February 17, 2064 Annular | 146 | August 12, 2064 Total |
| 151 | February 5, 2065 Partial | 156 | August 2, 2065 Partial |

### Metonic series

The metonic series repeats eclipses every 19 years (6939.69 days), lasting about 5 cycles. Eclipses occur in nearly the same calendar date. In addition, the octon subseries repeats 1/5 of that or every 3.8 years (1387.94 days). All eclipses in this table occur at the Moon's descending node.

Octon series with 21 events between May 21, 1993 and August 2, 2065 :

| May 20–21 | March 8–9 | December 25–26 | October 13–14 | August 1–2 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 98 | 100 | 102 | 104 | 106 |
| May 21, 1955 | March 9, 1959 | December 26, 1962 | October 14, 1966 | August 2, 1970 |
| 108 | 110 | 112 | 114 | 116 |
| May 21, 1974 | March 9, 1978 | December 26, 1981 | October 14, 1985 | August 1, 1989 |
| 118 | 120 | 122 | 124 | 126 |
| May 21, 1993 | March 9, 1997 | December 25, 2000 | October 14, 2004 | August 1, 2008 |
| 128 | 130 | 132 | 134 | 136 |
| May 20, 2012 | March 9, 2016 | December 26, 2019 | October 14, 2023 | August 2, 2027 |
| 138 | 140 | 142 | 144 | 146 |
| May 21, 2031 | March 9, 2035 | December 26, 2038 | October 14, 2042 | August 2, 2046 |
| 148 | 150 | 152 | 154 | 156 |
| May 20, 2050 | March 9, 2054 | December 26, 2057 | October 13, 2061 | August 2, 2065 |
| 158 | 160 | 162 | 164 | 166 |
| May 20, 2069 | March 8, 2073 | December 26, 2076 | October 13, 2080 | August 1, 2084 |
